Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-04
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The BON WANTS ARD THEIR COST
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Royalty in New York-The Best Hotel
Patrons Living at Ten Cents Day
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correspondence Of tho Richmond Dispatch.

correspondence Of the Richmond Dlspatch.l
NEW York, September 3, 1887.
The hotels of New York have never
entertained so many representatives eli
royalty and nobility in one year as
they have daring period dating from
March LIST OF this year TO the present
time. Queen Kapiolani and her re-
time, the Prince Of Siam and his fol-
loving, a rich Indian Prince, and the
Duke Of Marlborough have been some
OF the titled guests. No first class
New York hotel has MONOPOLY of the
patronage OF nobility and royalty,
although all are eager 10 get them,
Tor they are n great advertisement. A
house on lower Fifth avenue, of modest
appearance. but eminently select as to
ITS guests, had the Indian Prince and
tie Duke of Marlborough among its
guests. 1t is not an expensive ho-
tel. bat it has and keeps a run on
ROYALTY, and especially on titled per
sons from Great Britain and her pro-
Vlaccs An old hotol-man was asked
bow houses succeed first in getting the
patronage Of wealthy and royal foreign
,rS? lie replied that Il is mainly due
10 the influence of their Wallets or ser
wants. The valet falls in with the pur-
ser or captain of the steamer and makes
inanirics as 10 the best hotel. The
CAPTAIN has his favOritc list OF hotels
whose propriotors have not forgotten
him. and his royal passengers are pref
ty sure 90 go TO the house that he sug-
costs. Railroad conductors, too, are
very useful agents for hotels, and many
a ccnductorwh in New York gets his
board free in consideration that he will
send distinguished customers to the
house.
Ent royal perSonages are not the
most profitable guests of n house.
Your English lord viii pay $40 a day
for the board of himself and servants
nj select hotel and think it extrava-
CANT enough. The board bill of the
Prince Of Siam and his retinue while
he was in New York did not exceed so
q day. and the Queen of the Sandwich
Islands lived on much less than that, a
fact which may have been due to the
somewhat impoverished condition of
the treasury of the kingdom.
THE BIG HOTEL BILLS
raid in New York are from the pockets
Of foreigners less high in rank than
princes OF dukes or from Americans,
who. after all, are the best patrons.
Sarah Bernhard when in New York
stops at a hotel whose best rooms cost
so each n day. She gets a suite for
herself and apartments for her attend
ants and the monagerie of animals that
she has with her The entire cost OF
tie lodging is about SO day, and Of
her meals from the hotel cajf about
So. She is not a drinkcr of much eX-
pcnsive wine. Patti and Nlcollni,
who are high livcrs and drink chOtce
vine. pay more for their meals
ard less for their apartments. A
ninCc Of hotel patrons, however, was
de J csscps. Tie and his family and
servants paid at q wcll-fnown uptown
house tie Wiuccly sum OF $500 a
week. They had their own COOK IN
the kitchen and several attendants, and
lived on the very top shell. An Oh cure
Spouish count of not very great wealth
or fame was at the same hotel prior to
the coming OF de Lcsseps, and although
unknown to imc ON tins side u the
water he won distinction as the banner
hotel customer 10y paying the prlncely
sum Of u, COG per week Tor his enter
toinmcnt When James Mcitcniy,
the once time railroad magnate, was
IN the zenith of bis financial power
he was one of the most profitable Gus
TONERS Of New York hotels. He had
ms valet and agent and attendants with
him. Nothing but the best suite OF
rooms in q house would answer ms
purposc, and, although q light eater,
he was not sparing as to the table.
When the Duke Alexis visited tins
country he spent money very freely at
the hotel where he stopped, and his
taste for Russian dishes nearly drove
the chez wild. He demanded cheese
and whiskey as an appetizer IN the
morning; bis tea was brewed III q
SainOcir, according to the Russian rule,
and nothing hut the choicest OF cham
payne. Of which Russians always get
the best, would suit his taste.
TIE BEST HOTEL CUSTOMERS.
However, the best all-the-yearround
quests are the Americans, and especial
ly those from the West, and the most
profitable Of these are the people on
tLcir wedding tour. One hotel on up
rer Broadway makes quite feature OF
entertaining the latter class. 1t has
lridal-chambers that rent for S27a day,
and good meal in its cG}c will cost
the couple about so. Another house
farther up town makes specially OF
catering 10 people who desire to be
truly select, and especially TO elderly
ladio. of wealth who desire TO keel
thGr daughters in the choicest social at
mo-phere Of hotel life that money will
buy The house was owned by
man who recently gave 1t &c
his daughter as her wedding por'
ton. and she draws the handsome IN
come of s., goo a month from It, Even
at this enormous rental the landlord
Who died the other day, made million
dollars out OF the place. His hobby
was 70 ieep the house select. Their
was well. conducted bar In an obscure
mart Of the hotel, but one evening some
vonng men in the saloon raised thei
voices above the decorous key that wa
the rule of the hotel, and the LANDLORD
ST once closed and abolished his bar
There is. perhaps, no other city IN tn
world where it would be possible for
hotel. running at such great expense
10 make money without bar.
$500, 600, coo ~ A MODEST HOUSE.
II is pretty hard TO find hotel il
New York that isn't making money. :
landlord of one of the latest and mos
expensive houses built in New lorl
died the other day worth fortune
The proprietor of the house spent mor'
than million dollars in its construction
but il proved SO profitable from tn
start that it has given him no care be
vond receiving the rent when 1t
brought TO him. Indeed, 1t is said tina
he has never been inside of 1t.
But all the New York places that en-
terrain royalty cannot boast OF havlnl
within their walls at one time repre-
sentatiyes of such immense wealth a
are sometimes foundOf apleasant after
noon at a homely little inn in the out
skirts of the city at the head OF Jerom
- A etrenoar xVould mass IL ID